Plasmodium

“I think that to realise an
anxiety attack and to resolve it
is the highest form of existence
[…] it is a useful ‘creation’.
useful in the sense that I make a
progress [..]
the word useful smells of morals
by useful I mean reel [sic]
as opposed to aesthetic ‘creation which
is an un-useful creation [..]
I want to create bridges
what I want is to be close to the others

— Louise Bourgeois
The Return Of The Repressed

“Emotional maturity, we are just beginning to glimpse, may mean capacity to feel truly, in relation to the facts of our world, the feelings of others; and also to create in our responses to others a relationship of “feeling together” which is something different from and better than single individuals could experience alone. So little do we know about this that we have scarcely any vocabulary to talk about it. But something like this is at the basis, we are sure, of acting together, for out of common feeling much more than from shared intellectual concepts comes the capacity to cooperate for valued ends.”

— Bertha Capen Reynolds
1934
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